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https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-constitution/

This is, and I am not lying, a link to the Constitution of the United States.

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Latest Trump administration nonsense

It seems reproductiverights.gov is down and I'm hearing it's intentional rather than a technical issue. Wow.

It's not returning DNS. NOERROR and empty ANSWER rather than NXDOMAIN, but all of .gov seems to do that for records which don't exist. Also points toward intentional shutdown.

╰─❯ dig reproductiverights.gov A ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> reproductiverights.gov A ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 36073 ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;reproductiverights.gov. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: gov. 297 IN SOA a.ns.gov. dns.cloudflare.com. 1737549305 3600 900 604800 300 ;; Query time: 14 msec ;; SERVER: 100.100.100.100#53(100.100.100.100) ;; WHEN: Wed Jan 22 12:39:14 GMT 2025 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 110

Same results for AAAA and CNAME.

If you need any information from it, the Internet Archive snapshot from 14th January is available. Until they come for that.

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NEXT WEEK: I write a long and impassioned article trying to get everyone to use faceparty again

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Wrote a thing! It's about how I set my blog up as a Notion database.

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Quite impressed with Openvibe. It's iOS (also available for Android) but I'm running it on an Apple Silicon Mac, and it fits really nicely next to my browser.

It's a multi-network client for Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, and Nostr.

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the twitter filters are incredible.

"cis" - no response "cis man" - tweet instantly deleted "cis woman" - no response

these people are so fucking fragile.

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Experimenting with Notion as a blog. I'll tweak it over time, but even just presenting the database as a home page is pretty cool.

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Sometimes you come across something that is such unimpeachable lunacy that you just have to sit in awe.

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Please don't underestimate balance issues

I'd like to use your attention for a moment to ask that people don't underestimate what "balance issues" means.

I suffer from MS, multiple sclerosis, and for about a year now the world has been permanently spinning because of lesions on my cerebellum.

It will be for the rest of my life, the damage is done and won't get fixed. In fact, it'll get worse as more lesions appear and my brain gets increasingly scarred. It's not reduced over time, I've just learned to protect myself a bit more and to avoid things that make it worse.

The other day, I fell over from standing completely still.

The world shifted sideways, and I reflexively compensated, as anyone would if for example you were on a boat or plane and it suddenly took a turn or capsized; the response came, as it always does, before having a chance to process it on any conscious level. If the world had shifted, I would have then kept standing.

But it hadn't.

So I operate on false information and respond to something that doesn't exist, and end up on my arse. The number of times I've injured myself is pretty hilarious at this point, I've got multiple inches-deep gashes in my legs from falling on things made of metal.

I'm not looking for thoughts and prayers here, but I do want people to try to understand how radically crippling it is.

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It still kind of slays me that I watched a company go from setting a £60k minimum salary for all employees, including entry level, to firing the entire dev team in a group call and reducing the infra team to one entry level employee and expecting more than my own level of output (I was the head of the entire infra department) from her

'business' might be the reason for companies doing terrible shit, but never let them fool you into thinking it's an excuse

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the finest moment (well, I probably exaggerate, but it's pretty good) in Grant Morrison's INVISIBLES series is when they take the Marquis de Sade to a fetish club.

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Can we please move to Dreamwidth? Please? Can LJ (ish) come back?

Pretty please?

(daveio if you're over there, I've also got an old account wideband which I'm leaving alone but daveio is the one to follow)

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if you get this image maybe rub some voltarol into your back yeah

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these two are responsible for so much of the freedom I feel to express my personality and I can only thank them for it

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This track is 14 years old. You may now commence weeping.

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Rediddled my CV. I keep finding great use cases for Notion.

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